Bold paragraphs are used instead of headings
Automated check p-as-heading, run with axe-core
- WCAG
- 1.3.1 Info and Relationships (Level A)
- Severity
- Moderate: a degraded experience
- Typical effort
- Moderate, 1 to 4 hours
- Category
- Page structure
Who this affects
Screen reader users, who navigate by headings.
Why it matters
Text that looks like a heading but is marked up as a paragraph is missing from the heading list, so those sections cannot be found.
How to fix it
Mark section titles up as <h2>, <h3> and so on, and style them with CSS.
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